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Page 92 - But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick ; but go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice : for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Page 94 - All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient ; all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
Page 102 - No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Page 94 - All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Page 359 - Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted ; but the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Page 406 - A merry heart doth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Page 94 - Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God: even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Page 408 - The Eye has not seen, nor the Ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of Man to conceive, what...
Page 233 - Who will give me the wings of a dove, that I may fly away and be at rest.
Page 89 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.